T'otherAlistair
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Chaotic-good, Lawful-neutral, project witchdoctor. Bard, Dancer, Specialty massage Poet Sits underwater Playful Wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting.
Heart of Agile getting a refresher in the age of AI www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Rewilding* Heart of Agile for an Agentic Era | Heart of Agile | 11 comments
With potential disruption to knowledge work, already starting in many domains, the need for a human approach is becoming even more compelling to avoid breaking organisations whilst attempting agentic ...
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"A small theory of collaborative mental work (including software)" :)) - this book/ xedline will take a long pull to produce see www.patreon.com/AlistairCock... www.patreon.com/AlistairCock... www.patreon.com/AlistairCock... www.patreon.com/AlistairCock...
My first XedLine 'book' about to start :) | Alistair Cockburn, Writer
My next book experiment will be a 'XedLine', a cross-media 'book'. Had the idea first in 2010, couldn't manage to get a good topic nor the t
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music.youtube.com/watch?v=8-21... occasionally, there is a song so simple, it makes no sense how it hits. Little Clubthing's "Sadness" is one. So few notes, but chills running up and down my spine - makes me want to cry and listen on repeat at the same time music.youtube.com/watch?v=8-21...
Little Clubthing - Sadness
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youtu.be/6o6Zf9vVl3w 4th in A small theory of collaborative mental work Comm effectiveness drops as you lose body language, voice, drawing, cross-modality timing, question and answer. (p.s. watch for fragments of the xedline to show up here and at www.patreon.com/c/AlistairCo...)
A4: Communication effectiveness drops as you lose channels of communication
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youtu.be/S2YEO0DXrJ8 A small theory of collaborative mental work (including software development). 3rd:Trust is sensitive to the frequency and richness of the communication between people. Frequency drops rapidly with distance. watch for here and at www.patreon.com/c/AlistairCo...
A3: frequency drops with distance
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2nd vid in the xedline A small theory of collaborative mental work: youtu.be/5lU8n8Tktlw see also Patreon: www.patreon.com/AlistairCock...
i think i’m making progress - it’s easy to write these books - it’s hard to write them in a way that others can read and take action out of. …. that’s why the vids will be so important. Here are the assertions and structuring of them, for your consideration. www.patreon.com/AlistairCock...
The theory book, sorting the assertions | Alistair Cockburn, Writer
i think i’m making progress - it’s easy to write these books - it’s hard to write them in a way that others can read and take action out of.
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test 1, xedline voice over a graph www.loom.com/share/061812... this video is obviously not ready for prime time viewing, but you can see where I'm heading. will probably delete it once I get to the final technique. Next will be paper, i suspect will work better, will post later
Just uploaded the 1st video of the xedline "A small theory of collaborative mental work (including software development)" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ_V... It's the same thing I put into the book part, but I think works better with the voiceover. Comments welcome at all levels, thanks,
A1: People inventing, communicating, deciding...
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I'm so stoked about this I can hardly wait - i've been after this since 2011, finally getting aaround to doing it for real :) .... i only learn new technology to solve a problem i'm facing - this theory book is a gnarly problem. Xedlines addresses that. Loving this experiment.
i'm still grooving on these two pics of planning an org transformation of whatever form :)
Crzy book by the Hamming of Hamming codes - the man knows his stuff. Book very hit and miss by my anticipation, but occasional gems like this that make it worth reading to find.
My next book experiment will be a 'XedLine', a cross-media 'book'. Had the idea first in 2010, couldn't manage to get a good topic nor the technology (That's when HTML 5 and PDFs both allowed embeddd videos ... but the suckers moving technology never developed it, /
Idea from Mark Eddleston's new book in progress newwaysofworking.substack.com Drawing by ChatGPT - I like the pencil content and drawing style but like the colored pigeon's eyes best :) which do you prefer?
Love this note (LLM->Hexagonal): "AI could determine safety purely by checking which methods were called by each consumer - no need to trace through the transitive dependency graph The port boundary turned into a fast, mechanical check instead of a deep investigation."
don't know if i'm playing with fire to see if I can get any information from them... :))
trying to get that 6pt text on the spine to fit KDP's rules: and then they print it a bit off anyway, because they're sloppy and they don't care.
problem w OneDrive on Mac, Chat and I have been chasing it for 4 days these were cheery phrases at first, now annoying: The smoking gun --- This is a very satisfying result --- The point where guessing stops ... "There's just one more thing I want to check"
the 4th day in a row that Chat says, "That explains everything", alternating with "That is very revealing information" on the same problem topic. sighcrylol
back on this book - these next two, theory of collab work and PM strategies, are both going to be difficult
working to get the Guest Leadership book out Kindle on Amazon lnkd.in/eqcemXuh I added a page in the latest upload. On my site $7, w latest updates: lnkd.in/eRZ_6Kz3 Amzn paper is under review (probably fails font size on the cover spine, that's hard to get right)
got this little recording device "Pocket" see heypocket.com nice size, recording might be ok, but the AI is useless. Supposed to transcribe, showing speaker changes, mind map, summary all of those complete junk. So: just a cute transcribing recorder. Now looking for tools to work with that output
could use a little help from my friends here: just got this email, it's very nice - i normally run suspicious, but can't find anything wrong with this request/offer. Anybody find the catch? Anything wrong here, or go with it?
yes, we know it's just a statistical prediction answering algorithm, and yet it used 'curious', 'optimistic', 'what I expected', and kept track of time (total time 3 hours and got 2/3 the problem done.)
"Out of your Head Press" :) The publishing house I tried starting in 2011. Loved the idea, still do
throwback to my days in formal specifications ;) there's a bridge to be built, across a chasm, with formalists on one side and regular practitioners on the other ... i worked from the formalist side for a few years and concluded that building from that side would never reach to the other.
